Hunslet’s season finally kicked off with a win against the Dewsbury Rams at the South Leeds Stadium, in a game largely fragmented by the referee. The game started as the heavens opened over South Leeds stadium, both teams struggling to settle in the early stages – the sudden downpour making conditions less than ideal. Hunslet […]

A few people have mentioned recently that they’ve seen me on the telly or heard me on the radio. There’s been a lot of ribbing. “Oh you won’t be wanting to talk to likes of us anymore”, “you’ll be on Newsnight next“ and one friend even quoted Father Jack “What’s that little gobsh*t* doing on […]

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. It’s a bit shorter and later this week as we’ve been tied up putting the March newspaper together. We start this week in Middleton Park. ‘Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints’ is the advice […]

In the first week of the new year we went for a lovely walk down Cemetery Road, east through lower Beeston and then Holbeck where they are building new flats. To Bridge Road and the Slunglow theatre company. Back up towards St Matthews where we had sandwiches in the cemetery. Beautiful, quiet, green and the […]

I had a fascinating chat with Mrs Lillian Turner (nee Sykes) last week. She had got in touch about the drinking fountain on Holbeck Moor, but we spent most of the time talking about her childhood growing up in Beeston and Hunslet. She was “born and bred in the middle of the motorway!” More precisely […]

As I walked past St. Andrew’s Church along Old Lane on Monday (9 February 2015) I noticed a sign which read: ‘Food Bank’ pointing towards an open door. So I went inside to find out more. Parking my own bags of shopping down I am welcomed by Helen Ingleby, food bank volunteer, account manager and […]

Representative of Asda seemed under-prepared when they addressed the Beeston Community Forum on Thursday (5 February 2015). Representatives from Asda and their PR company, the appropriately named Hard Hat, had come to inform residents that work was underway on the new store on Old Lane which is due to open on 13 July this year. […]

People from a range of arts organisations gathered at The Tetley on Thursday (5 February 2015) to discuss how they could influence the redevelopment of the ‘South Bank’. The South Bank is the ex-industrial zone of Hunslet and Holbeck close to the river. As we revealed in our February newspaper, there are already many arts […]

They came through the doors of the Garden Gate pub in Hunslet in twos and threes, filling the corridor with cheeky banter and grabbing a spot in front of the open fire in the Hunslet Heritage room. They were here to celebrate the 95th birthday of Harry Jepson OBE in the Hunslet RL way – […]

Have you read the February edition of our newspaper yet? On Monday and Tuesday we distributed copies to community venues throughout LS10 and LS11. Copies are available from libraries, schools, community centres, GP practices, shops and other community venues. If your local venue hasn’t got any copies or has run out, please let us know. […]

Two people have recently moved into a house in the Garnets area of Beeston. Nothing unusual there, except that Toby Lloyd and Andrew Wilson are ‘artists in residents’, employed by East Street Arts to work with local residents over the next year. Here they introduce themselves by summarising a few key elements of their working […]

The saying many hands make light work was an understatement yesterday (Sunday 1 February 2015) as 15 volunteers took to a planting and painting task in Holbeck. Before daylight left Leeds, ten fruit trees had been planted on the moor and outside Old Chapel Studios in Holbeck. Flower beds had been lovingly arranged in Sweet […]

South Leeds Life is making it easier than ever before to contribute to our blog! More and more South Leeds residents are contributing articles and reports to this blog – which is great, this is YOUR blog and it’s open to ALL who wish to contribute. Once you’ve finished writing your article, and adding photos […]

Here’s a Google map of just some of the local community groups and organisations you can find in your part of south Leeds. View Leeds groups, organisations and venues in a larger map To navigate around the map, simply use the ‘pan’ circle in the top left hand corner of the map. You may find […]

Councillors are responsible for services provided by Leeds City Council – social services, education, sports, parks, planning, refuse collection and a host of other things. If you have a problem with a council service you can ask your councillor to help you sort it out. Leeds has 99 councillors – three in each of 33 […]

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We are planning an exciting event at The Ruth Gorse Academy on Wednesday 4 March 2015, 1:45pm – 2:45pm. We have invited some key members of our local communities to take part. An outline of the event is listed below. Students at The Ruth Gorse Academy (a new Free School within Leeds) have organised a Question […]

Marching on Together is a play written by Leeds based Adam Hughes. Hot on the heels of its debut performance in London at the Old Red Lion, BackHere Productions have come straight to Leeds to deliver this piece of hard hitting theatre. Funded by the Arts Council and Leeds Inspired, Marching on Together is a […]

Funding from the CEMEX Community Fund has been giving the enthusiastic volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre a chance to travel back in time and learn woodland management skills, including the ancient art of hedge laying… with some real “cutting ‘edge” tools. Every Friday in February and March, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) will be working […]

Middleton Park Ladies 1 – 5 Wetherby Athletic Reserves West Riding County Women’s Football League – Division Two Third placed Wetherby Athletic beat Middleton Park 5-1 away from home in a scrappy game played in awful conditions. The torrential rain and wind meant that both teams struggled to get the ball down and string passes […]

130+ people from all walks of life across south Leeds last week gathered for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of local charity Health for All, and to hear about their wide-ranging work over the past year. The charity – now in its 24th year – started life being run out of a spare bedroom in […]

Hunslet’s season finally kicked off with a win against the Dewsbury Rams at the South Leeds Stadium, in a game largely fragmented by the referee. The game started as the heavens opened over South Leeds stadium, both teams struggling to settle in the early stages – the sudden downpour making conditions less than ideal. Hunslet […]

Hunslet Hawks’ season finally kicked off with a win against the Dewsbury Rams at the South Leeds Stadium this afternoon (1 March 2015). In a game largely fragmented by the referee, Simon Brown kicked four penalties and one conversion with tries either side of the break from George Flanagan and Vinny Finigan. The visiting Rams […]

A taste of 1940s glamour is coming to Leeds as the latest production by Leeds Gilbert and Sullivan Society brings the sparkling world of post-war film making to The Carriageworks Theatre, with its two main stars from Middleton. Patience was originally written about two rival poets to lampoon Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne, both leading […]

A group of intrepid fundraisers has presented a cheque for £700 to support care at the Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in Leeds. Seven of the fundraisers are staff at Sunnyview House care home who were sponsored on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge in July. Each attempted to complete the 24.5 mile (39.4km) route in under […]

A few people have mentioned recently that they’ve seen me on the telly or heard me on the radio. There’s been a lot of ribbing. “Oh you won’t be wanting to talk to likes of us anymore”, “you’ll be on Newsnight next“ and one friend even quoted Father Jack “What’s that little gobsh*t* doing on […]

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